Staff Software Engineer - Platform

About the position:

The Stellar Health engineering team has worked to build a mature engineering culture from day one. We have implemented product development best practices and operate in a way that gives every engineer, regardless of seniority, the opportunity to directly impact the product and our customers.

As a Staff Software Engineer you will be responsible for leading technical efforts that affect multiple squads to address the most pressing technical needs that impact the organization. These efforts could range from driving architectural choices, to deep dives into cross-team performance issues, to driving alignment on specific technology choices. You will work closely with other leaders to define the product roadmap, specifications, and priorities. Your work will require deep research into our codebase with the expectation that a Staff-level engineer will lead by example through research, proof of concept, design, implementation, and deliveries.  

Some of the challenges you will work on solving:

• Designing services that follow the best engineering practices and patterns 
• Designing data processing pipelines that scale 
• Designing with security and strong privacy protection of patient health data as a central concern
• Designing foundational infrastructure that enables business intelligence and data science applications to generate useful insights
• Improving system monitoring that follows operational best practices

Who will love this job:

• You have a passion for developer productivity, great documentation, and an understanding of how to build a strong engineering culture
• You take pride in shepherding projects from ideation to completion, often requiring partnership with stakeholder teams to carefully roll out changes
• You enjoy working collaboratively across teams and disciplines to plan and sequence work 
• You seek out feedback from your users and empathetically advocate for them throughout the development process
• You care about code quality and you know what it means to ship robust, production code
• You love working in an environment where you constantly experiment and iterate quickly
• You enjoy helping organize and scope high priority projects to keep us moving forward

What you’ll do:

• Build best-in-class services and infrastructure for our platform teams
• Share in the ownership of the technical direction and impact of the platform - be responsible for consistently delivering new features and iterations to existing ones
• Work with the team to align on product roadmaps, specifications, and priorities.
• Ensure our users have a bug-free and fast experience
• Evolve the architecture to maintain velocity of shipping visible changes
• Actively contribute to Stellar’s Engineering Culture and ensure engineers are writing clear and concise production code for the Stellar Health Platform
• Provide effective and constructive feedback by reviewing others’ work
• Set consistent standards via code and design reviews, as well as your own technical contributions

As a Staff Engineer you should have:

• At least 10 years of Software Engineering experience
• Deep understanding of large scale system design, data structures, and algorithms
• Experience leading and coordinating cross-functional architectural projects and rollouts
• Experience writing highly available and low latency services, and know how to deploy and keep them running in production
• A strong focus on clean code and architecture. Advocate for engineering best practices that allow code to be flexible, scalable, maintainable, and approachable to other engineers
• An ability to dive deep into issues quickly and identify the root cause effectively, bringing calm and rationality to tense situations
• A demonstrated ability to work across engineering teams on projects that elevate not just our own systems and designs, but those of other teams as well
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. We work with people across time zones and backgrounds, so you need to be able to communicate both effectively and inclusively